1.General

We would like to thank you for choosing Mag Paper. Built by the latest version of WordPress and used with WordPress only as well as using the powerful page builder plugin Visual Composer. Now let’s jump to the theme presentation.

1.1.Requirements for Mag Paper

In this section, we present Recommended PHP configuration limits and how to verify your current PHP limits. But before that, make sure that you’re running the latest version of WordPress, PHP version 5.6 or higher and MySQL version 5.6 or higher.

Recommended PHP configuration limits

One of the issues you may run into is importing demo data fails. The first solution is to increase PHP limits. You can do this by yourself or contact your server provider to ask for the help to increase following PHP limits:

max_execution_time 3000

memory_limit 512M

post_max_size 100M

upload_max_filesize 64M

How to verify your current PHP limits

Verify your PHP limits in Dashboard >> Mag Paper >> System Status. Or contact the server provider to confirm your current PHP limits are and have them set it up again if neeed.

3.2.Plugins

1. Mag Paper requires Thim Coreplugin to work. This plugin have to be actived as soon as you uploaded the theme. As we mentioned in section Upload Theme, afer you upload the theme, there will be a notification message “Install and active ThimPress Core to start now! ” This is Thim Core plugin.

3.3.Update Theme

There are 2 common ways to update the theme: Via Envato Toolkit – automatically update and via FTP – manually update. We ThimPress has developed another way to update theme via Thim Core plugin. The updating will not loose your changes before but to be safety, you should backup files and database before updating. After updated, re-save customize in Dashboard >> Customize >> click Save & Publish.

3.3.1.Via Thim Core

With thim core plugin of ThimPress included in Mag theme, you can auto update theme faster and easier through an account from envato by going to Mag Paper >> Dashboard >> click “Login With Envato” to update theme.

Step 2. Login your server, then go to wp-content/ themes folder and backup your magpaper theme folder if you want or delete it. The content in your site will not be lost but if you have modified code, the changes will be lost. You have to reapply them after updating over.

Step 3. Exact new file magpaper.zip you have already downloaded from Themeforest.

3.4.Child Theme

A child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality and styling of another theme, called the parent theme. If you modify a theme directly and it is updated, then your modifications may be lost. By using a child theme you will ensure that your modifications are preserved.

Mag Paper provides an available child theme so that you just need to upload to your site without doing anything else after installed the parent theme successfully. Child theme of Mag Paper is a zip file named mag-paper-child packed in child-themefolder after exacted theme package (child-theme/ mag-paper-child). Uploading child theme is similar to uploading parent theme.

4.Demo

4.1.Import Demo

The easiest way to import our demo content is to use our Thim Core Demo Importer. Our importer will give you all pages and posts, several sample sliders, widgets, Customize Options, assigned pages, and more. This is recommended to do on fresh installs. It will not replace content like posts, pages, portfolio, etc , it will not delete current menus but configure our demo menus, and it will not replace but add sliders. Another method is manually importing.

4.1.2.Manually Import

In the event that your host will not make changes, or you cannot get the demo content to import, you can then import the individual elements manually. Continue reading below to learn how to manually import demo content.

Where To Find Demo Files

There is a “content.xml” file placed in folder name-theme/inc/data/demos, just select a demo you want then find this file for importing demo.

How To Import XML Files

Step 1 – Go to Dashboard >> Tools >> click Import.

Step 2 – On the Import page, select WordPress from the list and install the WordPress Importer Plugin.

Step 3 – Click Choose File, then choose the content.xml file from your desired demo folder. For example, if you would like to install the Demo-01, you would install the content.xml inside the Demo-01 folder.

How To Import Widget Data

Step 3 – Click the Select A File button, and select the widgets_data.json file from the same folder you got the XML and theme option files you’e just imported. Example: name-theme/inc/data/demos/demo-01/widget.

4.2.Elements Setup

4.2.1.Contact Form

Once installed and imported demo data, you can manage it in the Dashboard >> Contact >> click Add New to create new contact forms for different parts of your website or edit the existing ones via the Edit option in Contact Formstab.

How To Setup Contact Forms:

1. Form:

You can put any content of contact form and click button “Save” then a shortcode will be auto created. Just copy this shortcode into post, page, or text widget content that you want.

Demo Mag Paper theme has 3 styles contact form available for Contact Page, just click Edit option in Contact Forms tab then copy and paste below content into contact form:

5.Customize

5.1.General

5.1.1.Logo

Logo:

This option gives you the freedom to decide how to display the header logo on scroll. Go to Dashboard >> Appearance>> Customize >> General >> Logo.

1. Sticky Logo: Upload your logo and on your sticky logo will be loaded the header logo. If users want to change sticky logo, they can click “Remove” then “Change File” to replace sticky logo.

2. Retina Logo: This option allows you to add to your sticky menu a mobile logo.

The size of your Logo Section on Header Menu could be set with Width Logo option. Since the layout is built using Bootstrap Grid system for a responsive design, the width of your Header Menu is also divided into 12 sections. We recommend using value 2 or 3 (corresponding with 16.67% or 25%) to menu will be shown in a line. You can set logo size as you want then your site will automatically thumbnail size depending on the value of “logo width” to logo displayed balance with menu.

Site Icon:

The Site Icon is used as a browser and app icon for your site. Icons must be square, and at least 512 pixels wide and tall. It should be in one of the following formats: .ico, .png, .gif. Usually we should use .ico.

5.1.3.Styling

1. Primary Color: Each of our theme will have one major color called “Theme primary color”. The elements of the primary color are included with: Hover Text color of buttons, hover social link icon… If you configure any color, it also will be applied similarly to these elements.

2. Select Color, Image, Pattern: This is place to select background color or background image or pattern if select main content or boxed bacground.

5.1.4.Typography

All typography options are located within their specific Customize panel. For example, if you’d like to customize your main menu typography settings, then you would find those options in the Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Header >> Main Menu tab. If you don’t find the typography settings for a specific feature, it may be because it’s been combined into a header typography option in Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> General >> Typography.

5.1.6.Custom Css

5.2.Header

5.2.1.Layout

We designed 6 beautiful layouts for header to offer you multiple options for customizing your site. You can choose what items you want to display and how to order them in this section. Please see below how to customize it in Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Header and expand the Layout section.

1. Layout: You can decide how to order the items on header. Choose one of the three layouts and click on it.

2. Header Width: There are 2 styles for header position is “box” or “wide”.

5.2.2.Top Bar

The top bar is located in the top section of the header and give you the option to display the data, top menu and social icons.

Top Bar Options:

The Top Bar theme panel section contains the following options:

1. Show Top Bar: The theme comes with the Top Bar enabled by default. If you would like to disable it just go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Header and expand the Top Bar section. Turn off the button in the Show Top Bar section.

2. Show Top Widget Area: Click to show or hide top widget area.

3. Top bar Fonts: You can decide what font size or color of text you want to display on the top bar section. Go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Header and expand the Top Bar section. Select the desired font size and color from Topbar Fonts option.

5.2.3.Main Menu

Mag Paper theme is so flexible that you can choose where you want to use the menus. Theme supports custom WordPress menus, with multiple levels of drop down for the main menu. There are 2 areas of the theme where you can display a menu: the Main Menu and the Footer Menu. In this section you will learn how to create a new menu, and customize the Main Menu.

Theme comes with some general options for the Main Menu. Go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Header and expand Main Menu section.

Main Menu Options:

Mag Paper theme offers several theme options to customize the menu. They are located in Appearance > Customize > Header >> Main Menu tab. Users can customize the fonts, change color and height of menu text.

How To Setup A New Menu:

Step 2 – Click the Create A New Menu link to make a new menu. Enter the name then click the Create Menu button.

Step 3 – To add a menu item, select one of your created pages on the left hand side and click the Add to Menu button. You can also add all kinds of different posts from the left side.

Step 4 – To add a custom menu item, enter a custom name and link into the Links box.

Step 5 – Manage your menus by using the drag and drop functionality. To create a dropdown menu, simply drag a menu item below and slightly to the right of another menu item, and it will lock into place and create a dropdown section.

Step 6 – After setting up your menu, scroll down to the bottom of the page to assign “Primary Menu” in the Theme Locations box if you want this is “Main Menu”.

Step 7 – Once its all done, make sure you click the Save Menu button.

Here is a screenshot that shows you the various areas and descriptions of the menu section described above.

5.2.5.Sticky Menu

Mag Paper theme supports to has a sticky header option. For improved usability, as the user scrolls down a page, the sticky header activates ensuring the website’s main menu is always accessible. To manage the sticky header, Mag WP theme includes several options for styling, as well as visibility options to enable or disable it on various screen sizes.

Sticky Menu Options:

Below is a list of all the available options for the Sticky Menu. These options are located in Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Header > Sticky Menu.

1. Show Sticky On Scroll: Enable/disable the sticky menu.

2. Select Style: Select style menu when scroll. If select “The same with main menu” then users do not need to configure for main menu when sticky anymore. If select “Custom” then users need to configure color for text, background, text hover for main menu.

Layout:

This is the place for you to select an alignment for your blog page, which is a page to display posts in your site. You can choose whether or not to use the sidebar, as well as positioning it in a layout with 1 or 2 columns.

Copyright Section Options:

1. Show Copyright Text: This option allows you to enable or disable copyright text section.

2. Background Color: Pick a background color of copyright section.

3. Colors: Pick color for text, link, hover on copyright section.

4. Copyright Text: Enter text in copyright section.

How To Add Widgets into Footer Sidebar:

Widgets add various content or features to your site. They can be added, removed, and rearranged in Dashboard >> Appearance >> Widgetstab >> Footer Sidebar.

Step 1 – First, make sure that you’ve enabled footer widgets on your site. To do this, navigate to the Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Footer tab >> Setting and switch the “Footer Widgets” option to On. Set how many columns you’d like to display by customizing the “Sidebar Number” option.

5.7.Advertisement

Mag Paper theme offers several theme options to customize for author page, single post and home masonry of advertisment page. They are located in Appearance > Customize > Advertisement tab. Users can enter text/ HTML that displays on pages of advertisement.

7.Support Service

When purchasing our themes, you will receive the free 6 months of support service for the questions and problems regarding the theme. Once the period of your support service is expired, you can extend support to 12 months. But no matter your support service of your product is over or not, you always receive free timelife updates for the theme.

We really care about customer support services and guarantee to response to all support topics within 24 hours on weekday (a bit longer over weekend) since you posted a ticket.

Regarding the problems with code customizations or 3rd party plugins, we are not able to provide free support service. We just can provide you customization service at a fee.

Your PHP version is outdated. PHP version 5.6 or higher is recommended.

There are also some sticky tickets we posted in purchased theme support forum. Please take a look these tickets. In case you can not find out the answer, don’t hestitate to let us know by submitting a ticket.

How to active or update premium included in theme

You can use included premium plugins such as Visual Composer free when you purchase and download our themes from ThemeForest. So you don’t need to buy your own licenses to use these plugins.

However, as a note from that plugin’s author, you (theme buyer) can not active and directly get support from them. So please don’t try to active these plugins by using theme’s purchase code.

Please don’t worry if you see warning messages about the plugin license activation or update required. You will always get the latest version of Visual Composer…when we update the theme. We will test these plugins before send it to you to make sure there are no conflicts with our themes.